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the

/ði/ · adverb

Meaning

  1. With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.
  2. With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.
  3. For each; per.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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